CHAPTER 4
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THE FURY OF THE STORM
"Sorry, Guardian Girl, but nothing's happening to her while I'm around. You're about to wish that you had stayed dead," Oswin said as her eyes glowed with power.
The Black Guardian laughed as she said, "You actually think that you've got a chance don't you? You may have the combined abilities of all of your echoes, Clara Oswald, but even that is nothing compared to the power of the Bad Wolf. You really don't understand just how much Rose has been holding back do you? None of you have even begun to see the true extent of her power. She is the living embodiment of the Skasis Paradigm and as such could literally do anything in this reality. She could completely remake it if she wished with a single thought. The only reason that she hasn't is because she didn't feel that she had the right to impose her will upon others. I have no such concerns however."
"Oh, come on. If Rose is really that powerful and you have all of her power now then why are any of us still here? Why don't you just remake the universe right now like you've been boasting that you'll do? I'll tell you why. It's because you're completely full of hot air," Oswin said with a smug look on her face.
"Hey, don't tempt her," Clara said in a slightly frightened voice that made Rose realize that the horrifying memories of her recent dreams were really starting to hit home for her at that moment.
Rose had promised to keep her safe, and now she couldn't even save herself. She couldn't do anything to help anyone now. Not without making things even worse.
Then Rose began to smile as she thought of a plan. It was very risky but it might just work.
The Doctor meanwhile was joining Oswin in her attack on him as he said, "You know it must be very tiring being such a hypocrite, Guardian. You're angry at Rose for making the changes that she has, but you're planning on changing everything. Then again that's the standard logic of the megalomaniac so I can't say that I'm too surprised by it."
"Rose swayed this universe too far to the side of Order. I'm merely rebooting it and giving it a fresh new start with both good and evil having equal power once more. Of course I admit that I may yet bring an unfair advantage to my side of the equation," The Black Guardian said with a sly smile.
"Yeah, I bet you're really broken up about it too," Clara said as her voice cracked despite how brave she was trying to force herself to be for Rose and Cassiopeia's sake.
To her horror, the Black Guardian's full attention turned completely toward Clara in that moment as she said, "She's very close to you isn't she? Yes, she is. I can feel it. She thinks of you as her sister and loves you dearly. I can see the concern for you in her eyes right now. Look, Bella! She's replaced you already. How about that? If I killed you and Cassiopeia both at the same time while she watched, why that would be just perfect wouldn't it?"
The Doctor suddenly stepped in front of Clara protectively with his eyes blazing with anger as he gave the Guardian a stare that would have made even the bravest of men cower in terror before him. The full fury of the Oncoming Storm was in his gaze now as he challenged the Black Guardian.
"This is the end for you. After today, you won't be coming back not in this or any other form. You won't get a chance to lay a finger on Rose, Cassiopeia, or Clara because I'm going to stop you . . . permanently," The Doctor promised.
The Black Guardian continued to smile as she showed no evidence of any kind of concern about him whatsoever while she said, "Will you? Just as you and your precious Rose stopped me before? Or how you stopped me back when we first met? Empty threats and idle promises will never keep me from completely tearing your entire world apart, Doctor. You can never stop me. I'm far too powerful for any of you to even touch me now."
"Then why haven't you tried to do anything to us yet then?" Oswin asked still certain that the Black Guardian was bluffing.
"You know that's a very good idea. I think I will," The Black Guardian said as she suddenly crossed the room in the blink of an eye and grabbed Clara violently by the neck.
Clara screamed as the Black Guardian began to burn her neck with the power from her glowing hands even as the Doctor and Oswin shouted out in fear. Rose meanwhile was filled with absolute terror at the nightmarish scene before her.
This was it. This was exactly what she had seen in her vision. It was happening just like she saw it happen then.
She knew that she had no choice now. She was going to die.
In order to save Clara, she had to die.
Even knowing this though, she was still going to do what she had to do in order to save her anyway without hesitation. She would never watch another sister die again. Not when she could do something to stop it.
No matter what it cost.
The Black Guardian began to smile in triumph as she saw the sudden look of resolve that came over Rose's face. This was it. She was just about to have her final victory over her at last now.
She only had to push her just a little bit more in order to make certain of it. She was so close now that she could feel it. Just one final push was all that Rose needed to make her act, and she was more than willing to give it to her.
As Clara continued to scream while her neck began to feel like it was being cooked, Oswin attacked the Black Guardian with a massive psychic blast using the combined willpower of every echo of Clara Oswald in this reality. The Black Guardian instantly reeled from her assault and struggled to stay conscious even as the Doctor followed up on Oswin's attack with an energy attack from the crystal that contained the essence of the trapped Eternal named Wrack.
That was the only powerful object in his collection that he hadn't given to the other Doctor. He had wanted to save one of them for himself in case of an emergency, and now he was so glad that he had.
The Black Guardian continued to hold onto Clara tightly even as she struggled to fight back against the others. Their combined attack was extremely powerful, but it was still nothing combined to the power that she had stolen from Rose.
It was long past time that she showed them that.
The Black Guardian smiled as her entire body exploded with so much energy that Oswin was knocked out cold in a single instant, and the Doctor's neural synapses were completely scrambled. He instantly fell to the ground as he lost all control over his body and began to twitch and spasm violently on the floor.
The Black Guardian began to laugh as she now picked up the still unconscious Cassiopeia by the neck with one hand while still holding onto the wailing Clara with her other one. She now looked at Rose with a superior smirk on her face as she began to start attacking both women at once without mercy now.
Rose was immediately filled with absolute fear and disgust as she could actually see them both starting to burn alive in front of her.
"Say good bye to them now, Rose. First I'll kill them and then I'll kill your precious Doctor next. Everyone you love will die, Rose, and there's nothing that you can do about it. Absolutely nothing," The Black Guardian taunted her with horrible soul crushing laughter.
Rose's eyes glowed with power as she said in a voice filled with renewed energy, "No. No one else is going to die because of you. You killed Bella but you won't take anyone else away from me. I won't let you. This is the end of the line this time . . . for both of us."
The Black Guardian began to smile as her hearts filled with joy. This was it. She had finally done it at last! In one unthinking moment of pure anger, Rose was just about to unlock her true power at last.
As soon as she did, it would all belong to the Black Guardian instead.
Even as the Guardian waited for her chance to seize that power for herself, Cassiopeia was violently shocked back to life as her entire body filled with a massive jolt of energy all at once. In that moment, she had just received the full power of the Bad Wolf from her mother.
"No!" The Black Guardian shouted in disbelief as she was forced to drop Cassiopeia as the sudden influx of power almost incinerated the hand that she had been holding her with giving it massive burns and rendering it completely unusable.
Rose now stood on her feet once again with a renewed sense of purpose as she said, "Still don't understand yet? I think she's about to give you a clue in a minute."
The still confused and disoriented Cassiopeia now saw what the Black Guardian had been about to do to Clara and instantly became filled with hatred for her. An enormous burst of raw energy poured out of her eyes and sent the Guardian hurtling across the room at incredible speed forcing her to drop Clara.
The Guardian struggled to keep herself from being slammed into the nearest wall with every ounce of power that she possessed, but in the end it was utterly useless. She was being buffeted with such power that there was no way that she could have resisted it.
"It's like trying to fight a hurricane!" The Black Guardian cried out in disbelief as she hit the wall with such force that it instantly shattered every bone in her body.
Pure, unfiltered power continued to pour out of the still only half-conscious Cassiopeia in punishing waves pinning the Black Guardian hard against the wall. The Guardian could feel herself being slowly ripped apart atom by atom while being completely helpless to do anything about it.
"Now you're gettin' it aren't you?" Rose said with a sad smile as the Guardian yelled out in impotent rage.
The Black Guardian knew that she was about to die within a matter of moments now. There was no stopping it.
She wasn't about to go alone though.
The Black Guardian gestured at Rose as she shouted, "You might have won again, Rose Tyler, but this time you won't be here to see it. Let this be my final revenge on you!"
Rose began to cry as she saw her body starting to slowly fade away. This was it. This was the end at last.
"Rose! No!" Clara shouted in anguish.
This finally forced Cassiopeia back to full consciousness at last as she realized that her mother was disappearing right in front of her. She immediately stopped attacking the Black Guardian in that instant, and the Guardian's devastated body slid to the floor in a broken heap while she blacked out.
"Mum!" Cassiopeia cried out in despair.
"Good bye, baby. I love you," Rose said as the lower half of her body completely dissolved.
"Not this time! I won't lose you again!" A newly conscious Doctor shouted as he raced towards her as fast as he could.
"Good bye, Doctor. I'm sorry," Rose said as she felt her arms go next.
"I won't lose you!" The Doctor said again as he wrapped his arms around her shoulders and held on as tightly as he could while tears fell down his cheeks.
"Doctor, let her go! You don't know what it might do to you!" Clara warned.
The Doctor looked at her with infinite sadness in his eyes as he said, "I don't care. Good bye, Clara. You were a good friend. No, that's not quite right is it? You were a good sister. The best."
"No!" Clara screamed as she raced towards him.
"I can't stop it. I don't know how to control this much power at once. I can't stop it!" Cassiopeia screamed in despair as she tried to save her mother and failed over and over again.
"Take care of her, Clara. Take care of all of them," Rose said in despair.
"No, you can't do this!" Clara shouted.
Just as Clara reached them, both Time Lords completely dissolved away in a single instant. All that was left of them now was the crystal containing Wrack.
"No. I failed them. I failed," Clara said in a small voice as she fell to her knees and wept uncontrollably.
"This can't be happening," Cassiopeia said in a voice filled with pain.
"Cassiopeia," The Black Guardian said in a weak voice.
"You! You did this!" Cassiopeia screamed with absolute hatred.
Then her eyes softened as she could sense that this wasn't the Guardian anymore. Her eyes were too soft and were filled with a love that the Black Guardian couldn't even comprehend much less show.
"Bella?" Cassiopeia asked
"Hello, Cassiopeia. It's so nice to finally meet you," Bella said with a faint smile.
"Bella, what happened to the Guardian?" Cassiopeia asked.
"He's so weak thanks to you at the moment that even I can control him now. That won't last forever though. I have to stop him now before he regains his strength or Rose will have been lost for nothing," Bella said.
Cassiopeia's eyes widened as she said, "No, Bella. Don't! She wouldn't want you to do this. I'll find some other way of stopping him. I've already lost too much today."
"I'm sorry but this is the way it has to be. I can't take the chance of him taking me over again. I won't live through that anymore. I would have loved a chance to be your aunt. You seem very kind and sweet. I bet I would have loved you," Bella said in a voice filled with regret.
"I know you would have. I'm the greatest," Cassiopeia said with a smile making both women laugh.
Then Bella began to cry as she said, "I'm sorry, Cass. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me."
"It wasn't your fault," Cassiopeia said as she began to gently stroke her hair.
"I should have tried harder to fight him. I . . . I have to go now. Tell Rose that I love her," Bella said.
"What?" Cassiopeia said in confusion as Clara's head instantly shot up.
Bella actually smiled as she said, "She's not dead. Neither of them are, Cass. He didn't want to kill her. He wanted to trap her in another universe again away from the Doctor and everyone else that she loved. That was his ultimate revenge on her was to take everything away from her again either one way or another. He couldn't destroy this universe so he exiled her from it instead. I'm so glad that he failed in the end. Wherever she is now he's with her."
"Where are they?" Cassiopeia asked as she began to be filled with hope once more.
"I don't know. I wish I did. I don't think that he knows either. He just picked a dimension at random," Bella said.
"I have to get them back. I'll find them if I have to search for the rest of my lives. I will find them," Cassiopeia promised.
"We'll find them, Cass," Clara said as she got up off of her knees and stood beside her.
Bella smiled as she said, "I know you will. I have to stop the Guardian now while I still can. I'm sorry that it had to be this way, Cass. I would have loved to see the rest of Rose's family. I'm sure they're all just as great as you are though. Good bye, Cassiopeia. I love you."
Then Bella began to glow with power as Cassiopeia screamed, "Don't! Please don't!"
Bella smiled at her one last time and then she instantly dissolved into a pile of ashes. All of the energy that the Black Guardian had stolen from Rose instantly went straight into Cassiopeia's body in that moment completely overwhelming her. Cassiopeia only had time to give a short scream of surprise before her eyes rolled back in her head and she hit the floor.
"Cass!" Clara shouted.
She instantly checked her vital signs and sighed in relief as she felt that the girl's hearts were still beating. At least she hadn't lost this one just yet Clara thought to herself in a depressed state.
"Clara, what's going on? Where are the others and what happened to Cass?" Oswin asked with concern as she finally returned to consciousness at that moment.
After Clara told her, Oswin said, "When she wakes up, tell her that I'll find them. I'll use the full resources of the Daleks, and I won't stop until I bring them back again. I promise you both that."
Clara nodded even as she said, "It's my fault, Ozzie. I failed them. It was my job to keep them safe."
Oswin shook her head and wrapped her arms around her as she said, "No, Clara. There was nothing that you could have done. You don't even have any power anymore. It's all gone now, isn't it?"
Clara nodded as she said, "Yeah, Missy's still blocking me from the Vortex."
"Don't feel bad. My powers are suddenly all messed up. I can barely use them now, and I only just got them," Oswin said.
"What? Yours aren't Vortex based," Clara said in confusion.
"I can't get mine to work very well either now. It's like something's blocking them and weakening them somehow," Christina said with concern as she and Jenny joined them.
Jenny looked devastated which made Clara realize that the two of them must have overheard what she had told Oswin. Clara immediately comforted Jenny who she realized had just lost her family for the second time in her life.
"It's okay, Jen. We'll find them and until we do I'm here. I'll always be here for you and so will your brothers and sisters," Clara said as she held her tightly.
"What just happened? I just had my Guardian powers momentarily shut off on me right in the middle of a fight and was almost killed by an android because of it," Shehzadi said as she joined them.
"I don't know but it seems to have affected all of us in one way or another," Oswin said.
"I suspect that it's universe wide. When Cassiopeia was hit with the full force of all of Rose's power at once it seemed to set off some kind of a cosmic backlash because she couldn't handle them, and they went completely out of control. Missy was already tampering with the laws of the universe so that she could shut the Vortex users' powers off and adding what just happened on top of that seems to have seriously messed up the nature of this reality. Either everyone's lost their powers or they're not working dependably from what I've seen. It doesn't seem to be affecting the people from other universes though oddly enough just the ones from this one," River said as she too joined them now.
"Which means that Missy probably still has her power," Clara said with a frown.
"Not necessarily. Missy's power came from this reality, remember?" Oswin reminded her.
"Yeah, but it would be just our luck that she would get to keep hers while the rest of us are all having problems with ours. We've got to go find out. She's outside fighting another Doctor and Clara who I hope didn't just have their cosmic knickknacks go out on them in the middle of the battle," Clara said.
"I guess we'll soon find out. Most of the androids inside the TARDIS have been dealt with so we can go see what's going on outside now," River said as she led the way to the Console Room.
Clara and Oswin both worked together to lift the still unconscious Cassiopeia up and swiftly carried her out of the room. As soon as everyone left, the Matriarch became visible once more and smiled.
Her powers had been completely unaffected. She had no idea why. Maybe it was because she was from the future or maybe it had something to do with the power of the Great Old Ones that she had stolen. Perhaps they were all unaffected since they were from a previous universe.
Whatever the reason was if what River just said was true about everyone else's power being affected, then she would have the advantage over all of them. She could crush them all and take over the entire universe then if she wanted.
She had to find out what happened to Missy before she did anything else she thought to herself as she turned invisible once more and followed the others outside.
Right before she was taken off of the TARDIS, Cassiopeia quickly regained consciousness to discover that she could no longer use either her powers or the ones that her mother had given to her. She could still feel the power of the Bad Wolf there deep inside of her, but she couldn't access it no matter how hard she tried.
"That's just great. I was hoping that you could fix this mess," Clara admitted.
"So was I. We're really in trouble if Missy still has her powers," Cassiopeia said with a frown.
"Well, there's no time like the present to find out is there?" River said with a large grin.
"Don't tell me you're actually enjoying this," Cassiopeia said in an upset voice.
River's smiled immediately faded as she said, "The challenge of fighting a completely mad Master with ultimate power when we have nothing to use against her? Oh, yes! What just happened to your parents? No, Cass. I'm not enjoying that at all. I'm so sorry about it."
Amy looked at her in surprise that she could admit something like that as Cassiopeia said, "Thank you, Melody. We're going to get them back though. I won't rest until I do."
"Of course we will," River said even as she quickly hid a look of doubt that threatened to come over her face.
"Come on, Cass. Let's find out what's happening," Clara said in a gentle tone.
Everyone exited Missy's TARDIS and instantly felt their hearts drop as they saw the Doctor and Clara from Missy's universe lying on the ground with the weapons that the Doctor had given them lying strewn all around the area in a haphazard manner. Neither of them was moving.
"Are they alright?" Oswin asked with concern.
Cassiopeia and Clara felt both of their pulses and each smiled at once at what they discovered.
"Yeah, they're fine. I didn't think that Missy would kill the Doctor. The Master always liked to torment him too much to ever do that," Clara said as she recalled some of her echoes' memories.
"Speaking of the Master, where are the three Masters who went with them and where's the Clara with the mind control powers from the other universe? I don't see any of them anywhere," Amy wondered out loud.
"I bet I can guess knowing Koschei," Cassiopeia said.
River nodded as she said, "Yes. Missy took them prisoner in order to have someone to gloat to about her final victory over the universe."
"Why didn't she take these two then?" Christina asked.
River smiled at her as she said, "She wants him to try to stop her. It's what she lives for."
"Well, someone's got to try to stop her or we're all going to be dressed like Mary Poppins soon and carry matching umbrellas. I'd still like to know if she has her powers or not," Clara wondered.
"I'd say that's pretty obvious. I mean they lost didn't they? Their doodads must have lost power while she didn't," Amy said.
Cassiopeia shook her head as she said, "No, they still work. See?"
She held up one of the segments to the Key of Time and it briefly glowed with power. The Dodecahedron did as well along with everything else that Cass tested. The objects were just fine.
She started to put some of them in her pockets as Jenny asked, "How did they lose then?"
"Maybe Missy finally got the upper hand. She always has some sneaky new trick to pull out of her hat when she needs it the most it seems," Christina said.
"Finally someone got it right. I was wondering if they would. Meet the 'trick,' A voice said as massive energy blasts began to buffet the entire area.
The Matriarch shook her head in disbelief as she saw that it was the evil silicon-based alien warlord from the planet Kastria named Eldrad. Missy had used Eldrad's ring containing his DNA that she had taken when she killed him in an earlier fight to bring him back to life once again and given him part of her own power. The two of them working together were apparently just powerful enough to win the fight and allow Missy to escape.
Why in the world would Eldrad ever trust her after she turned on him? The Matriarch briefly wondered. Then she realized that Eldrad would do anything to escape being trapped forever in that ring even help the person who killed him.
As the others either ran from Eldrad or did their best to fight back, the Matriarch briefly wondered if she should intervene or not. If she did, whose side should she be on?
Even as the Matriarch pondered this, Eldrad was steadily defeating each and every one of the others as first Oswin, then Amy, and then Shehzadi fell before his blasts. Eldrad laughed as one after another of his attackers fell before him.
"Soon you and everyone else still left in that TARDIS will all be dead, and then I will reclaim the planet Kastria and rebuild it into a mighty empire once more just as Missy promised me. None of you stand a chance against me now," Eldrad boasted.
"Oh, I wouldn't say that," Cassiopeia said just as one of her arrows flew into the Kastrian's back that contained a deadly acid that was lethal to Kastrians.
The acid went to work immediately to completely dissolve the Kastrian from the inside and within moments he was dead once again. Cassiopeia immediately took Eldrad's ring and put it in her pocket as the others looked at her in shock.
Cassiopeia shrugged as she said, "What? Dad told me all about him once, and I've kept a special arrow designed to be used against Kastrians around ever since. I always like to be prepared."
Clara grinned as she said, "Your parents would be proud although your dad would probably give you a long lecture about killing him."
Cassiopeia looked at her sadly as she said, "Yeah, I know. I wish I could hear it right now."
"So do I," Clara said as she hugged her.
Amy gave them a few moments to quietly grieve and then she said, "Let's go. We have to finish clearing out Missy's TARDIS of the androids and then search it to see if we can find any clues to where Missy went. We have to find a way to stop her too. I only hope that we can come up with a way to free the Time Lords from her while we're at it."
"Already working on it, Mother," River said.
"Why am I not surprised?" Amy said with a warm smile.
As The Matriarch watched them go back into Missy's TARDIS and take the still unconscious Doctor and Clara from Missy's universe with them, she reached out with her powers to find Missy herself. She smiled as soon as she realized where she was.
"Of course. Where else would you go?" The Matriarch said to herself as she proceeded to immediately go there too while she teleported away.
The destination in question turned out to be UNIT HQ on the Earth of this universe which her Time Lord army had already subjugated for her. Missy had decided to return to the scene of her previous defeat, even if it wasn't the right Earth, in order to celebrate her ultimate victory.
She was now in complete control of the base as Kate Stewart continued to give her a defiant stare even as her prisoner. Some things never changed no matter what universe you were in Missy thought to herself with a smile.
"Have you calibrated this primitive human equipment so that the signal can reach the entire universe yet? I want everyone to be able to hear me especially those parts of this reality that we haven't taken so far," Missy said to one of her enslaved Time Lords.
"It is done, Mistress," The Commander Maxil of this reality said.
"There's no need to be so formal. Missy will do just fine," Missy said with a grin as she enjoyed having Maxil of all people catering to her every need since he looked exactly like the Sixth Doctor.
Or was that the other way around? She could never remember.
Missy cleared her throat and then started to broadcast as she said, "Hello, peoples of the universe. This is your new lord and master speaking or I soon will be anyway. Now don't get too worried those of you who haven't had a chance to bow down before me just yet. I'm not so bad to deal with really as long as you don't step too far out of line. Just do whatever I say without question and we'll be just fine. If you don't however, well that's when things can get a bit . . . nasty. Trust me when I say that you don't want to find out how nasty. It's best not to know. It's definitely not nice though. So hang on out there if you haven't already been conquered just yet. Your time will come soon and then you can start worshipping me right away. Won't that be great? As for those of you who are already under my benevolent rule, welcome! Welcome, one and all! I so look forward to traveling to each and every one of your worlds so that you can bask in the wonder that is me."
"You're mad. Absolutely mad. You won't get away with this no matter how powerful you are now. The Doctor will find a way to stop you somehow," Kate suddenly said interrupting her.
Missy smiled from ear to ear as she said, "Oh, Katie, Katie, my dear girl. I'm counting on it!"
Just as she said that, Maxil shouted, "Mistress, the War TARDISes just reported that an unauthorized intruder has just appeared above London and is heading straight here despite being attacked by our superior firepower. Sensors indicate that it is the Doctor's TARDIS."
Missy clapped her hands together like a child and laughed as she said, "Excellent! Let's go outside and wait for him shall we? We mustn't keep him waiting after all for his final humiliating failure."
Missy hurried outside the building just in time to see the TARDIS easily dodging in and out of the attacks of several other TARDISes. She smiled as she saw it rapidly descending straight towards her.
Then that smile quickly faded as it became obvious that it wasn't going to stop.
Missy immediately teleported out of harm's way as the TARDIS went barreling straight through the space where she had just been and crashed straight through UNIT HQ's front door!
"So much for it being TARDIS proof," Missy said with a grin as she reappeared back in her original spot once more.
Missy quickly ran inside to find the TARDIS now parked right in the middle of the room that she had just broadcast from earlier. Kate Stewart of course was missing and so were her other prisoners.
Missy smiled with satisfaction as she said, "Ooh, he's good. I never expected anything else though."
Then she turned around and shouted, "I really like this new approach, Doctor. It's definitely a good way to make a memorable entrance I'll give you that. So let's cut to the chase already. Come on out and give me one of your pretty little speeches while you carry out your latest plan to defeat me. It won't work but I'll certainly have fun watching you try."
She received no answer however and continued to look around her in puzzlement while she stood next to the TARDIS. She reached out with her power but found no trace of the Doctor or Clara anywhere. Surely he couldn't have gotten that far she thought to herself. He didn't have enough time.
Then she realized something for the first time with a sudden sense of alarm. This wasn't her Doctor's TARDIS. It belonged to the Doctor of this universe instead.
"Oh, please don't tell me that I've been wasting my time on the wrong Doctor. I want my Doctor!" Missy said in an irritated voice.
"Sorry to disappoint you then. I'm not even the Doctor," A voice said that seemed to come from all around her.
"What? Who are you? Where are you?" Missy asked as she looked at her in puzzlement.
She still sensed no one there with her powers and her Time Lord servants just gave her confused glances. They obviously couldn't sense anyone either.
Then several arrows shot out of nowhere hitting all of the Time Lords around Missy in rapid succession at almost supernatural speed. They all immediately feel to the floor unconscious from the powerful sedatives that had been in the arrowheads.
"Who are you? Show yourself!" Missy said in anger.
"Who am I? I don't really know. I've been called so many things in my time. I've never had a chance to actually name myself though, and you know I should really do that. What should I call myself then, hmm? What sounds good to you?" The same voice from before said.
"It's not going to matter what you're called because soon you're going to be dead!" Missy shouted.
"Funny. That was going to be my line. Clara keeps telling me to not use lethal force but after what just happened to me I can't find it in myself to care about that sort of thing anymore. I just lost the people that I love the most today, and it's partially your fault! Do you think that I'm about to allow you to get away with that or with conquering this universe? Do you really think that this world isn't defended anymore? It is you know. This world is under my protection now and so is this universe," The voice said.
"Come out here and face me!" Missy demanded in growing frustration.
"Alright, but remember that you asked for it," The voice said.
Then Missy sensed movement from above her and looked up just in time to see Cassiopeia come flying towards her from on top of the TARDIS with a furious look on her face! Missy didn't even have time to react before Cassiopeia was relentlessly attacking her with a flurry of lightning fast kicks and punches that soon left her barely clinging to consciousness as she failed to even so much as scratch the deadly Time Lady who was mercilessly pummeling her.
"Who are you?" Missy said in a slurred voice.
"Oh, that's right. I never did say. Did I? I used to be called the Thorn and once I would have killed you for what you did. That's not who I am anymore though. I'm going to honor my father and his way of dealing with things so I decided that my Time Lord name should be based off of one of his. So you can just call me . . . The Storm. I think you can see why I called myself that. I attack just like one without quarter or mercy," Cassiopeia said as she finally stopped hitting her.
"You can't win even if you do beat me. The Time Lords of every reality are all still mine," Missy said as she struggled to maintain her balance while trying to keep from falling over from the dizziness that she was now experiencing.
"Yeah, about that. I have a specially made psychic jamming device that Marissa, you'd know her better as the Rani, came up with for me. It disrupts your androids' minds just nicely so I thought I'd try it on the Time Lords too. I patched it into the TARDIS and I'm using it to transmit its signal to this entire planet. Let's see how it works, yeah?" Cassiopeia said as she unconsciously started to adopt her mother's Cockney accent.
Cassiopeia then used the sonic screwdriver to switch the psychic jammer on and its signal rapidly went out through the entire city and continued to spread throughout the entire planet and beyond into the far reaches of space. The Time Lords in the War TARDISes above them all began to shake their heads and blink as they were instantly freed from Missy's control. The same scenario then repeated itself throughout the entire universe.
Cassiopeia smiled as she said into the communications device in her hand, "River, your plan worked. Now give one of those jammers to each of our friends from the other realities and let them save their own universe with it. Thanks, Melody. I couldn't have done it without you or Mari."
"I wonder about that. Do you need any help with Missy?" River asked.
"No, I'm fine. Using the objects that Dad had helped me to conceal myself perfectly from Missy until I was ready to strike at her my way. She's finished now. Tell the other Doctor that he can have her. I'm sick of looking at her," Cassiopeia said in an angry voice.
Then she cut off her transmission and took Weyland's Shield away from a semi-conscious Missy. She used the shield to take Missy's newfound power from her and then she immediately knocked Missy out cold with a single punch.
"It's finally over," Cassiopeia said.
"Is it?" A familiar voice said behind her.
She turned to see The Matriarch standing there and sighed.
"I'm so not in the mood for this right now. I will fight you if I have to though," Cassiopeia said in a weary voice.
"I'm not here to fight," The Matriarch said in a gentle voice.
"What? Since when?" Cassiopeia asked in confusion.
"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry," The Matriarch said.
"Is this some kind of trick because I am not in the mood for it?!" Cassiopeia shouted.
"I'm sorry that you lost them and that it's hurting you so much," The Matriarch said.
"Sure you are. You hate my father. You'd just as soon kill him as look at him," Cassiopeia said.
"That's true but I don't hate you. I never did. You and all of the kids are special to me, Cass. You always have been," The Matriarch said.
"Yeah, I'm really special alright. That's why I couldn't even save my own parents and why I completely screwed up everybody's powers except apparently yours. You're going to take full advantage of that too aren't you?" Cassiopeia said.
The Matriarch frowned as she said, "Of course I am. I will take over this entire universe sooner or later. It's inevitable now. That's a matter for another day though. It's not your fault you know. None of it is."
Cassiopeia glared at her as she shouted, "Stop this! Quit playing mind games with me! I already know that I'm a hopeless loser, okay? You don't have to rub it in!"
"Are you kidding? You just trashed The Queen of Loons all by yourself. That's not the mark of a hopeless loser. Stop beating yourself up. That's my job," The Matriarch said with a smile.
Cassiopeia and the Matriarch then both burst out laughing together. Cassiopeia's laughs immediately degenerated into tears however as she began to break down right in front of her.
"Some hero I am crying in front of the enemy," Cassiopeia said.
"I'm not your enemy. Not today. Maybe tomorrow but not today," The Matriarch said.
Then she suddenly moved forward and hugged her as Cassiopeia's hearts continued to break. She held her in silence for several moments and then she started to leave.
"Why did you do that? You're supposed to be Clara's dark side," Cassiopeia said making her stop.
The Matriarch smiled as she said, "Yes, I am. I'll do things that Clara would never do but that she's always wanted to secretly. After centuries of witnessing horrible tragic events one after another throughout the universe, I decided to finally be proactive and to go out there and try to end the constant misery and suffering in the universe my own way by assuming control of everything myself. I'll gladly get rid of anyone who stands between me and that greater good but I won't enjoy it. I do what I do because I think that it's for the best of everyone not because I'm evil. I'm neither good or evil, Cass. I'm far more complicated than that just like most people are. And yes I hate your father because I feel as though he's only made things worse with his manipulative ways when he could have made them better but I don't hate you. I practically raised you as Cydonia, Cass. I could never hate you or wish any misery on you. Ever."
Cassiopeia nodded and then said, "You'd kill me if I ever got in your way though, and you know that I will get in your way eventually. I won't let you take over this universe. I'm taking my Dad's place now. I'm going to use the TARDIS to carry on where he left off until he comes back again. I will defend the universe from everyone including you. Don't think that what you just did will make any difference in that. I appreciate it but it won't stop me."
The Matriarch smiled and said, "Don't think it will make any difference with me either, Cass. If you get in my way I'll stop you too. Permanently. I won't want to but I will if I have no other choice. Don't force me into doing that."
"No one forces anyone to do anything," Cassiopeia said.
"Fine. We'll just agree to disagree then. Good bye, Cass. I really hope for your sake that we never cross paths again," The Matriarch said as she vanished.
Cassiopeia shook her head unsure of what to make of that even as the Matriarch continued to watch her while invisible with a sinister smile. The Doctor and Rose were lost in another universe, she was one of the few people with reliable powers left, and now one of the only people left who stood a chance of stopping her had become half convinced that she wasn't as bad as she thought that she was lulling her into a false sense of security.
Everything was going exactly as she had planned it. Soon the universe would belong to her, and the future would be hers to shape as she pleased.
In the aftermath of the battle, Lily and her family were found soon after Missy's TARDIS was searched thoroughly, and they were returned back to their original bodies. Lily was devastated at what had happened to Rose and her part in it. She vowed to find her no matter how long that it took.
Clara also blamed herself for what had happened and made Cassiopeia a vow to continue on as her companion and protector until her parents returned. She also kept her promise to Rose that she had made in case anything ever happened to her and started to take care of her children for her. She included Cassiopeia in that number as well even though she would never admit that to her face.
Missy meanwhile was taken away by the Doctor and Clara of her world. Cassiopeia winced as she heard later from Jenny that Missy had gotten away from them and completely erased their memories of this whole incident. She just hoped that her Doctor found her again quickly because she definitely didn't want to have to deal with her again anytime soon.
The other Doctors and various heroes from the other universes immediately returned home and freed the Time Lords of their respective universes from Missy's control. They were all soon freed and everything was quickly returned back to normal throughout all of time and space except for the universe where Nightshade had given Gallifrey over to the powerful beings called the Divergence. As soon as the Time Lords there were freed, the story of the fight against them had only just begun.
Cassiopeia wished that particular Doctor good luck as he returned home and hoped that everything would eventually be okay for him as he returned to a universe that was quite different from the one that he had left.
Before Paige left she briefly brought her sisters Piper and Phoebe to Cassiopeia's universe and the three Charmed Ones did their best to use their combined power to scry for The Doctor and Rose's location. They tried several times without success however. They couldn't find a trace of either of them anywhere. They freely admitted that their powers may not extend throughout the entire multiverse though.
Cass was at least thankful that they had tried anyway.
Later that first night without her parents she sat alone in the Console Room of their TARDIS looking out into space through its open doors. She wondered if they could sense her thinking about them and if they were thinking about her at that moment.
She couldn't help but wonder if they were okay wherever they were. She certainly hoped so.
She had to have faith that they could survive whatever they found themselves faced with and overcome it. She had to have faith that one day that they would make their way back to her or that she would find them herself.
She had to believe that.
She had to believe that one day they would come back just as her mother had to her father twice before, and she swore to herself that when they did that she was going to make sure that the universe was in the same shape that it was when they left it. The Storm would make certain of it.
She would take up the mantle of her parents and keep everyone safe just as they had. She wouldn't let them down.
Not this time.
In another reality meanwhile, The Doctor and Rose appeared out of nowhere right in front of two young women causing them both to gasp in surprise.
"Who are you two and how did you do that?" One of the women who had long blonde hair and who looked to Rose to be in her early twenties said with an intrigued look on her face.
The other woman with her, who was perhaps in her late teens, and a brunette looked absolutely terrified and clung to the blonde in fear as she said, "What's going on, Eliza? What do they want?"
"Oh, don't get so upset, Crystal. I'm sure that it's just all some kind of publicity stunt. It's probably some magic act or something," Eliza said with a smirk.
"A magic act?" The Doctor said in disbelief.
"Well, what else could it be with you in that get-up? That's a magician's outfit if I ever saw one," Eliza said.
Rose laughed as she said, "Well, she's certainly got you there, Doctor."
The Doctor immediately looked at her in concern as he looked her up and down.
"Still checking me out even after all of this time, Doctor?" Rose asked with a smile.
The Doctor turned bright red as he said, "N – No! I was just making sure that you were alright. I was not 'checking you out', Rose."
"Well, why not? Feel free to if you want," Rose teased him.
The Doctor turned even brighter red as Rose laughed and kissed him.
"I'm fine now, Doctor. I'm not sick anymore and no one's slowly draining my life or power away. I'm alright. Yes, I'm trapped in another reality with no home or money and no way back but I've still got you. I know that everything will be alright as long as I've still got you," Rose said as she kissed him again.
"That was what happened in the vision wasn't it? You didn't see this though did you? You just saw yourself vanishing and thought that you were going to die," The Doctor realized.
"Yes, but I realize now that what he wanted was to trap me somewhere all alone and away from you instead of kill me. I'm so glad that you came along now. I'm so glad that he didn't get what he wanted," Rose said as she wrapped her arms around him.
Then she stopped smiling as she said in an uncertain voice, "Are you glad?"
The Doctor briefly smiled as he said, "You know I am."
"Are you sure? You've been separated from the TARDIS and you're stuck in one time and place maybe permanently. That's an awful lot to give up especially for you," Rose said.
"What good is traveling to other worlds and times if you're not there to show them to, Rose?" The Doctor said meaning it.
Rose smiled and said, "I will get us back someday. I promise you that. I found a way back before and I'll do it again. I won't give up until I do. I'm not going to let that be the last time that I see Cass. She was completely devastated and was blaming herself, Doctor. I don't want that to be my last memory of her, and I definitely don't want it to be her last memory of us. We're going back even if it takes us centuries."
"I never doubted it, Rose. Not for a moment. So how soon before we start on a new Dimension Cannon?" The Doctor asked in a completely serious voice.
"I don't know if you've noticed it or not, but we don't exactly have any materials to build one with on hand at the moment, Doctor. Plus we're likely to be taken to the loony bin soon from the way these two girls keep staring at us. That's sure to present a complication or two too," Rose said with a grin.
The Doctor shrugged as he said, "I've been in asylums before."
"I bet. Escape from any lately?" Eliza said with a chuckle as she finally spoke once more.
"Don't talk to them, Eliza. They could be dangerous," Crystal warned.
"No, they're safe," Eliza said as if she knew it for a fact.
"How do you know that? How can you sound so sure about that?" Crystal said in surprise which was a question that Rose was also wondering about.
Eliza got a distant look in her eyes for a moment as she said, "I don't know. I just trust them, Crys. I know that they won't hurt us. I just know it somehow in my gut. They're just mad, Sis, not dangerous."
"Thanks oh so much," Rose said with a reassuring smile.
"You're talking about being from another reality, and you don't expect me to think that you're mad? Either you're mad or you're having me on," Eliza said.
"Oh, we're definitely mad alright, but we're also telling the truth," Rose said with a chuckle.
Eliza shook her head as she said, "Sure, you are. So how did you do that trick? How did you just appear out of nowhere like that?"
"It wasn't a trick. We really did just come from another universe. You saw the evidence of that with your own eyes. Why do you insist on not believing it?" The Doctor said.
"It's just . . . It's just too impossible. That's why. I want to believe in such things, but they just don't happen in the real world. That's the kind of thing that happens in fairy tales," Eliza said as she began to sound uncertain of herself now.
"It does, doesn't it?" The Doctor said with a small grin as he decided that he liked Eliza.
"Just stop talking to them, Eliza, before they drive you mad too," Crystal warned.
"It's already too late for that I think," Eliza said with a grin that made her sister groan.
The Doctor definitely liked Eliza now. Rose smiled at him with a look that told him that she did too.
Eliza looked at them both with concern now as she said, "You really don't have anywhere to go do you? I can tell by the look in your eyes. You're really worried about something."
"No, we don't. We're all on our own with no place to go," Rose said but didn't mention that she was worried about her children not about being on her own.
Eliza nodded and said, "Not anymore. My name's Eliza. Eliza Newman. This is my sister, Crystal. We live just down the street and you're welcome to come and stay with us as long as you need to, alright?"
"Eliza, what are you doing? We don't even know them. They might kill us in our sleep or something!" Crystal said in disbelief.
"Are you going to kill us in our sleep?" Eliza asked in amusement.
"No, of course not. We're friendly madpeople I promise," Rose said with a warm smile.
"There. They're friendly. See?" Eliza said.
"You've . . . You've lost your mind, Eliza," Crystal said as she became extremely upset.
"Listen, we don't want to cause any trouble. We'll just go someplace else," Rose said.
"No!" Eliza suddenly shouted surprising everyone.
"Why not? They want to go," Crystal said.
"I – It just wouldn't be right to turn them away. They need our help, Crys. I feel like we should help them. Just trust me, alright? They're good people. I can tell that somehow. Don't ask me how. I just know," Eliza said.
Crystal looked at her for a long moment and then finally nodded and said, "Alright, if you're sure."
"I'm sure, Crys. More sure than I ever have been about anything," Eliza said with certainty.
"Thank you, Eliza," Rose said as she shook her hand in gratitude.
Then she poked the Doctor in the ribs as she said, "Say thank you, Doctor."
The Doctor looked more annoyed than thankful as he said in a brisk tone, "Yes, of course. Thank you."
"Say it better than that," Rose said.
"Thank you," The Doctor said meaning it.
Eliza nodded and said, "You're welcome. Come on. I'll show you two to our guest rooms."
The Doctor and Rose both exchanged a look as they followed the two women. They still had no idea why she was so insistent on helping two total strangers. They instinctively felt that they could trust her however which only served to bother the Doctor even more.
Why would he feel an immediate sense of trust in someone who he had only just met?
As the two Time Lords followed along filled with questions, Eliza had questions of her own.
Like why did she trust both of them so much and why did she feel so strongly that she needed to help them?
It was almost . . . but that was silly of course. That was another thing that only happened in fairy tales. And yet she couldn't help but think that it was almost as if it was her destiny to have met these two here today.
It was almost as if it had been meant to happen.
THE END
That's all for this particular adventure. For what happens to Rose, the Doctor, and Cassiopeia next be sure to read upcoming chapters of It's Better With Two, The Adventures of Rose Tyler, Time Lady, and Adventures in Time. You'll eventually find out the full story behind Eliza Newman there as well. I'll tell you right now though that's she destined to play a huge part in the history of Guardian Who. Thank you so much for reading and I hope that you liked it.